Day 17 → A book you’ve read that changed your views on something.
This is a difficult question for me because I have read so many books. Inside each book that I read there may be something that causes me to stop and think and possibly change my view about something.
A book that sticks out in my memory as causing a dramatic change in the way I thought/felt about something when I was young is "A Child Called It". I was about 16 when I read it and I remember reading it and realizing that perhaps what happened to me was not my fault and that there are other people out there in just as much pain as I was in. That is when I started to volunteer to be a "big sister" to children who had been abused to let them know that they were not alone and it was not their fault. I wish there was an organization like that around here like there was in California that focuses specifically on children that had suffered from sexual abuse.
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i love having those a-ha kind of moments when something clicks and helps us along our path. there is a big brother big sster program here. have you checked there to see? i think that's very neat that you were able to do that. i'm sure it changed lives for the better because of your willingness to share. :) love ya!
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